| Dancing
on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity |
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 Weightlessness.
The concept stirs feelings of freedom and whimsy,
from the tiny peace of the womb to the vastness
of space. Floating, rising, unfettered. Or, perhaps,
falling, frightened. The metaphors abound. And
it is those metaphors of transcendence that EMPAC’s
latest group exhibition strives to explore.
From floating performers and an upside-down kitchen
to an interactive flotation tank installation
and a continuously regulated helium sculpture,
the works featured in Dancing on the Ceiling:
Art & Zero Gravity employ science and
illusion to plumb the depths of what curator Kathleen
Forde calls “thoughtful lightness.”
Dancing
on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity opens
at EMPAC (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy)
tonight (Thursday, March 18) with a 6 PM reception
in Evelyn’s Café, followed by a 7 PM talk with
special-effects guru Douglas Trumbull and a screening
of 2001: A Space Odyssey on the 56-foot
screen of EMPAC’s concert hall. The exhibition
runs through April 10, and the whole shebang is
free and open to the public. For more info call
276-4135.
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BCB
ART, 116 Warren St., Hudson. 828-4539. Lifelike.
3/20-4/25. Reception 3/20, 6-8 PM.
EMPAC,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. Dancing on the
Ceiling: Art + Zero Gravity. 3/18-4/10. Reception 3/18,
6-7 PM. Talk 3/18, 7 PM, with Douglas Trumbull, and screening
of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Jay
Street Gallery, 163 Jay St., Schenectady. Member Show.
3/19-4/13. Reception 3/19, 5-9 PM.
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Albany
Art Room, 457 Madison Ave., Albany. 427-3910. Upstate:
Paintings and Constructed Paintings by Russell DeYoung.
Through 4/30.
Albany
Center Gallery, 39 Columbia St., Albany. 462-4775. The
Thread That Binds: Jennifer Hunold + Sierra Furtwangler.
Through 4/17. Closing reception 4/2, 6-8 PM.
Albany
Heritage Area Visitors Center, 25 Quackenbush Square,
Albany. 434-0405. The Art of the Quilt: The Tradition Continues.
Through 3/31. Also, gallery of Albany history, interactive
displays and cultural artifacts. Ongoing.
Albany
Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Avenue,
Albany. 463-4478. The Eternal Light of Egypt. Through
6/13. Also, Hudson River Panorama. Through Dec. 2010.
Also, The Landscape that Defined America: Artists of the
Hudson River School. Ongoing.
Albany
International Airport Gallery, Colonie, 242-2241. Material
Witness. Through 6/20. Also, site-specific installations
by Paul Katz, Harry Leigh, Harold Lohner, Lillian Mulero,
Ken Ragsdale, Nancy Shaver and Joy Taylor. Ongoing.
Angelo’s
677 Prime, 677 Broadway, Albany. 427-7463. Erik Laffer:
Cartography Series. Through 4/10.
Arkell
Museum & Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie. 673-2314.
Canojoharie School District Student Exhibition. Through 3/28.
Also, Arkell’s Inspiration: The Marketing of Beech-Nut
and Art for the People. Ongoing.
Bagels
Too, 166 North St., Pittsfield, Mass. (413) 499-0119.
Portrait photography by Mark Swirsky. Through 3/31.
Berkshire
Art Kitchen, 400 Main St., Great Barrington, Mass. (413)
717-0031. Fe-Mail: Mail Art by Karen Arp-Sandel and Suzi
Banks Baum. Through 4/30. Gallery talk 3/31, 7 PM.
Berkshire
Museum, 39 South St., Pittsfield, Mass. (413) 443-7171.
Armed & Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal. Through
6/6.
Boght
Arts Center, 583 Bought Road, Cohoes. 785-ARTS. Expressing
Faith: Art in the Christian Tradition. Through 4/3.
Broadway
Art Center, Arcade Building, 488 Broadway, Albany. 489-0866.
Lore and Lair: An Artist’s Vision. Through 3/31. Also,
Winter Blues. Through 3/31.
Brookside
Museum, 6 Charlton St., Ballston Spa. 885-4000. Who
Are You, Galway, N.Y.? Through 4/30.
Carrie
Haddad Gallery, 622 Warren St., Hudson. 828-3341. Painted
Cities. Through 4/11.
Carrie
Haddad Photographs, 318 Warren St., Hudson. 828-7655.
Walking Home. Through 4/18.
CCS
Bard Galleries/Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.
(845) 758-7598. Living Under the Same Roof. Through
6/6.
Center
for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker St., Woodstock.
(845) 679-9957. PQ 100. Through 5/31.
Children’s
Museum of Science & Technology, 250 Jordan Road, Troy.
235-2120. Wind Power! Also, Go Power . . . Naturally!
Also, Operation W.I.L.D. Also, Two Small Pieces
of Glass planetarium show.
Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown, Mass.,
(413) 458-9545. Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris.
Through 4/25. Also, Constable and After: Sir Edwin Manton
and the British Landscape. Through 6/23. Also, Material
Witnesses: Photographs of Things. Through 4/11.
Clement
Art Gallery, 201 Broadway, Troy. 272-6811. Color and
Energy: Wren Panzella & Chris Murray. Through 3/25.
Columbia
County Historical Society and Museum, 5 Albany Avenue,
Kinderhook. 758-9265. A Portrait of Columbia County.
Ongoing.
Columbia-Greene
Community College, Foundation Gallery, 4400 Route
23, Hudson. 828-4181. Postmark. Through 4/16.
Crailo
State Historic Site, 9 1/2 Riverside Ave., Rensselaer.
463-8738. A Sweet and Alien Land: Colony of the Dutch in
the Hudson River Valley. Ongoing.
Crandall
Public Library, Folklife Gallery, 251 Glen St., Glens
Falls. 792-6508. Great River of the Mountains. Through 5/10.
Davey
Jones Gallery, 386 Delaware Ave., Albany. 436-4810. Land:
Works by Brian Cirmo. Through 3/26.
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 West Bay Road,
Amherst, Mass. (413) 658-1100. Into the Wood: Antonio Frasconi’s
Art for Children. Through 6/13.
Esther
Massry Gallery, Massry Center for the Arts, College of
Saint Rose, 1002 Madison Ave., Albany. 454-5102. Larry
Poons: Recent Paintings. Through 3/21.
First
Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, 405 Washington
Ave., Albany. 463-7135. Art quilts by Mary Reich and sculpture
by Stan Reich. Through 3/31.
Frances
Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.
(845) 437-7404. Harry Roseman: Hole in the Wall. Through
5/18. Also, At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam
Since 1750. Through 3/21.
Fulton
Street Gallery, 408 Fulton St., Troy. 274-8464. James
Juron: Formation-Deforemation. Through 3/20.
Gallery
of New York Folk Art, 133 Jay St., Schenectady. nyfolklore.org.
Textured Stories: The Works of Denise Allen. Through
3/26.
Gallery
Upstairs @ 111, 111 Main St., Greenwich. 321-5505. Images
of Ireland: Helen Ruddock and Maureen Kinsella. Through
3/21.
Hamilton
Hill Arts Center, Inc., Jerry Burrell Gallery, 409 Schenectady
St., Schenectady. 346-1262. Black Pride: Street Photography
of Jeffrey Home. Through 4/9.
Hudson
Valley Community College, Teaching Gallery, 80 Vandenburgh
Ave., Troy. 629-8063. Blane De St Croix and Danny Goodwin.
Through 3/20.
The
Hyde Collection, 161 Warren St., Glens Falls. 792-1761.
An Enduring Legacy: American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
from the Thomas Clark Collection. Through 3/28.
Iron
Spring Gallery, 20 Washington St., Ballston Spa. 885-5855.
Mixed Media/Mixed Emotion. Through 3/27.
Lake
George Arts Project, Courthouse Gallery, Canada and Lower
Amherst Streets, Lake George Village. 668-2616. Inside/Outside:
Paintings by Dana Clancy and Ben Schwab. Through 4/16.
Local
Color Art Gallery, 1138 Troy Schenectady Road, Latham.
786-6557. Zoology. Through 3/31.
Martinez
Gallery, 3 Broadway, Troy. 274-9377. What Am I Doing
Now? Through 4/11.
MASS
MoCA, 87 Marshall St., North Adams, Mass. (413) 664-4481.
Guy Ben-Ner: Thursday the 12th. Through 4/25. Also,
This is Killing Me. Through 4/15. Also, InVisible.
Through 6/14. Also, Gravity Is a Force To Be Reckoned With.
Through 10/31. Also, Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective.
Through 11/15/33.
McGreevy
Prolab & ProPress, 376 Broadway, Albany. 426-1039.
Reggae Lives. Through 3/26.
Mohawk
Valley Center for the Arts, 401 Canal Place, Little Falls.
(315) 823-0808. Adventures in Quilting. Through 3/27.
National
Upholstering Design Studio and Gallery, 231 Lark
St., Albany. 434-1458. Photographs by Emily Kriss. Through
3/29. Also, photographs by John Whipple and jewelry by Danica
Lichtig. Through 3/29.
New
York State Military Museum, 61 Lake Ave., Saratoga Springs.
581-5100. Picturing Battle: Memories of War, Art of Thurlstrup,
U.S. Army Signal Corps and Steve Jordan. Ongoing. Also,
Dewitt Clinton Falls: Uniform of the New York National
Guard. Ongoing.
New
York State Museum, Empire State Plaza, Albany. 474-5877.
Birds of New York and the Paintings of Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
Through 9/6. Also, Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American
Photography from George Eastman House Collection. Through
5/9. Also, This Great Nation Will Endure. Through 3/14.
Also, Beneath the City: An Archaeological Perspective of
Albany; Rescue Recovery Response—Phase II; and
Windows on New York. Ongoing.
Nicole
Fiacco Gallery, 336 Warren St., Hudson. 828-5090. Jeanette
Fintz: View Four. Through 3/20.
Norman
Rockwell Museum, Route 183, Stockbridge, Mass. (413) 298-4100.
Norman Rockwell: A Life in Art. Through 6/20. Also,
Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera. Through 5/31.
Also, To Rockwell, with Love: Fan Mail and The Saturday
Evening Post. Through 5/16.
Northville
Public Library Gallery, South Third St., Northville,
863-6922. Passages. Through 3/30.
Photography
Center of the Capital District, 404 River St., Troy. 273-0100.
The Best of 2009: Sixty Photographers from the Capital
Region. Through 3/21.
Rensselaer
County Historical Society, 57 2nd St., Troy. 272-7232.
A Fugitive Slave Rescued. Through 6/19.
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Shelnutt Gallery, Student Union,
15th Street and Sage Avenue. 851-7044. Collage. Through
3/31.
Riverfront
Studios Fine Art Gallery, 96 Broad St., Schuylerville.
369-3280. The Season Opener. Through 4/23.
Sand
Lake Center for the Arts, 2880 Route 43, Averill
Park. 674-2007. Shawn Snow: Abstract Paintings. Through
3/30.
Saratoga
Automobile Museum, 110 Avenue of the Pines, Saratoga Spa
State Park, Saratoga Springs. 587-1935 ext. 20. New York racing
exhibit. Ongoing.
Saratoga
County Arts Council, Arts Center Gallery, 320 Broadway,
Saratoga Springs. 584-4132. It’s Not Unusual: Margo Mensing.
Through 3/27.
Schenectady
Museum and Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Nott Terrace Heights,
Schenectady. 382-7890. All Aboard! The Power of Locomotives.
Through 4/11. Also, FETCH! Lab. Ongoing.
Schick
Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga
Springs. 580-5049. 2010 Skidmore Student Exhibition. Through
3/28.
Tang
Teaching Museum and Gallery, Skidmore College, 815 N.
Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 580-8080. Fred Tomaselli.
Through 6/6. Also, Amazement Park. Through 4/25.
Thacher
Nature Center, 87 Nature Center Way, Voorheesville. 872-0800.
7th Annual Nature Art Exhibit. Through 3/27.
Troy
Atrium Gallery, Troy. 274-8464. Group Show. Through 3/31.
Union
College, Burns Arts Atrium Gallery, Nott Memorial, Schenectady.
388-6004. Here and There: Two Degrees of Separation.
Through 3/19.
Union
College, Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Schenectady.
388-6131. Chris Duncan: Recent Work. Through 5/9. Reception
and gallery talk 4/8, 5-7 PM.
University
Art Museum, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave,
Albany. 442-4035. Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey.
Through 4/4.
University
at Albany, Empire Commons Community Building, 1400 Washington
Ave., Albany. 473-3935. Friends. Through 4/9.
Upstate
Artists Guild, 247 Lark St., Albany. 426-3501. Slick.
Through 3/26
Valley
Artisans Market, Hubbard Hall, 25 E. Main St., Cambridge.
677-2765. Vermont Impressions. Through 3/30.
VARGA
Gallery and Studio, 130 Tinker St., Woodstock. (845) 679-4005.
Works by Peter Head. Through 4/3.
Visions
Gallery, Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany Pastoral Center,
40 N. Main Ave., Albany. 453-6600. The Way of the Cross.
Through 4/29.
Waterford
Historical Museum, 2 Museum Lane, Waterford. 238-0809.
Born of Two Rivers: An Illustrated History of Waterford,
New York. Ongoing.
Williams
College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass. (413) 597-2429.
Tristan Lowe: Mocha Dick. Through 8/8. Also, Remington’s
Bronco Buster: From Art Icon to Pop Icon. Through 7/25.
Also, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Juggernaut. Through 5/16.
Also, Landscapes of the Mind. Through 5/2.
Zion
Lutheran Church, Fellowship Hall, 153 Knott Terrace, Schenectady.
Expressions: Works by Carol Coogan. Through 4/25.
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